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Nov 5Liked by Michael F. Bird

100% agreed. Ultimately, rioting is unjustified in a democracy, and even self destructive. So is suicide, but people are driven to extremes when there seems no help and no hope. It takes tremendous restraint not to defend oneself or ones beseiged community when 'law' enforcement prefer to kill than to apprehend even at traffic stops. I agree with police intervention against rioters, but US gun culture and police militancy is not the final answer against systemic social injustice and state sanctioned murder.

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